To raise awareness about the effects of artificial lighting on human health and wellbeing.

To stimulate discussion and investigation into the effects of artificial lighting on human health and wellbeing.

The promotion of equality and diversity through encouraging provision of access to civic life for those excluded by sensitivity to artificial lighting.

Please help us to set up an organisation to provide a much-needed resource for people struggling with light sensitivity.

I wanted to tell the news we have a brand new organisation dedicated to raising awareness about the effects of artificial lighting on human health. It's called LightAware, and it will work to help individuals with lighting problems gain access to public life, LightAware is now a registered charity and the trustees are myself, Eleanor Levin, my sister Anna, Andrew and John Lincoln who is the husband of the late Catherine Hessett. We have been working hard to gain the charity status and get ready to launch the organisation on the world.

The plan is firstly to create a world-class website bringing together the available information on the subject in a professional and authoritative way, so that both sufferers and business and service can find the information they need. We also hope to create a Uk wide directory of 'light aware' businesses, create a membership organisation and helpline, run campaigns and promote much needed research. amongst other things!

LightAware will have a advisory board with experts in the field who can advise us on the more technical aspects of the problem, and assess whether articles etc have the merit needed to be included in the website. We are also hoping to create a network of LightAware ambassadors who can be part of the organisation and do things like being a press contact and being in touch with sufferers in their area who contact the website. We're really hoping that some of the people on this list would like to be part of this.

We're going to launch a Crowdfunding appeal soon to raise funds for the organisation so I'll be in touch soon with details of that.